Wednesday day 9

We stayed in Portree and drove around our area of Skye. Lots of mountains, sheep, cliffs and some waterfalls. It was a windy but mostly dry day.

One of the scenic lookouts

The red plants are heather and there is a lot of it in some areas

View from a high plateau

Pretty waterfall

The high plateau with free range sheep. They are branded on their horns. Skye is famous for it’s free range sheep.

My sandwich for lunch. Haggis and cheese with an egg on top.

A house restored to 150 years ago. It was lived in until the 1930s. A family with ten children lived here in the late 1800s. They moved other period buildings to this location to make an outdoor museum.

A bin of peat to burn for cooking or heat.

A blacksmith shop. Notice the roof construction. That’s the typical way they were built with thatch as the top layer.

Bev feeding a Coos cow. They are hardy and were common in the highlands. We have seen mostly sheep and a few modern strains of cows on our travels.

Rugged coastline with a waterfall

Janet and Pete down below

The telephoto view

Climbing to one of the lookouts

Looking out to some of the neighboring islands